First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers - Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled "Knights of Labor" and "Pittsburg Free Strikers" who are watching a man labeled "Workingman" trying to climb a "Greased" pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with "Monopoly Grease", at top are "Higher Wages, Bread, Tobacco, Wine, and Ham". The view from the pole shows factories in the mi

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First annual picnic of the "Knights of Labor" - more fun for the spectators than for the performers - Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled "Knights of Labor" and "Pittsburg Free Strikers" who are watching a man labeled "Workingman" trying to climb a "Greased" pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with "Monopoly Grease", at top are "Higher Wages, Bread, Tobacco, Wine, and Ham". The view from the pole shows factories in the middle distance and the "Roach Monopolist Ship Builder" facility in the background. Political Cartoon. June 21, 1882

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